The Somerset reporter., 1887-09-21
No Cider.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

BROTHERS AND SlHIElts.
1t is now fall of the
year. Soon it will be time to make cider.
Now let us join hands in one strong fra
ternal band and say we will not make ci-
der to help King Alcohol bring down our
fellow man If we have not beloved
sons of our own to form appetites by
drinking it, we have husbands, fathers
and brothers, or some other mother has IA
son who may drink the vile stuff and thus
be led blindly on to take the first step
towards drunkard's grave. Now who
among you are willing to step boldly for
ward and say / ,rW pork for the good
cause and for the good of mankind. If
YOU have cider apples, as cider drinkers
love to call them, feed them to the pigs,
cows, anything that will eat them, to get
rid of them have heard farmers say
40 nc, they don do the pigs n bit Of
good they will dry up the cows; the best
way is to make cider of them" do not
think so. think the apples do the pigs
more good than the cider does the man
They will not dry up the cows one half rs
much AS the cider will the love of his
wife and children or respect of his friend
when they happen to call some time and
see him staggering round with his load Of
old cider, his tongue running as though
it were hung in the middle and never
would stop waggng. If cider is made
and put into your cellar you can over
come that difficulty very easily. just re-
member, Sisters, crcry0nc Of yOu that CT
der loves moasses and yeast cakes Let
the cider drinkers wonder what makes
their cider grow hard and turn to vine
gar; you have not only increased the val
ne of their cider threefold but placed a
barrier between them and drunkard' 5
grave helped them sustain their moral
character and honorable position in soci-
ETY., and done your duty to them, for it
unneryes them for every enterprise of
life, eats out the very pith of their moral
nature, and is flaming sword in their
path which way they turn.
Now as earnest workers in the great
harvest fields of life, beg you to take
hold of this important work with faith,
knowing so many willing hands can do a
great work in this good cause, thereby
giving hope to the afflicted and great
charity to the needy,
SISTER OF No. POS,
We chcerfully endorse what our sister
has said on this important question, and
consider it timely just now, as the max
| ing of cider il near at hand. OF course
| there are but few apples this year to be
| converted into cider, yet the discussion
Of the temperance question, which is so
closely connected with our home inter-
ests, may awaken the thought in some
mind that ii is far better to give surplus
apples to some families who need them
for cooking and eating purposes. Bro,
Horace Eaton knows how much pleasantcr
it. is to give load of apples to those
who appreciate them, than to make them
into that beverage, the use of which
tends towards the saloon and wretched-
ness.
While the Grange is not in the inter st
of party or sect, it claims to be in the in
tercst of the home, of good society, and
of humanity. Let it, as an organization,
take hold of those great moral questions
and work together, as our sister has so
well said, for the better development of
that which is right and just, and to the
Encouragement of all that will rob us of
our happiness and prosperity. And there
is no question but that cider drinking and
the rum traffic are enemies to our organi-
cation as well as to our homes.
Ed. GRANGE Coz.